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  2. Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life

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    The board was convinced and in 1766 Warrington Academy replaced its classical curriculum with Priestley's liberal arts model. [3]Some scholars of education have argued that this work and Priestley's later Miscellaneous Observations relating to Education (1778) (often reprinted with the Essay on Education) [4] made Priestley the "most considerable English writer on educational philosophy ...

  3. Nel Noddings - Wikipedia

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    Colleague Michael Katz described Noddings as "one of the most efficient people" he knows, a "consummate teacher–scholar," who lives according to the "do it now" philosophy and "never lets her status as a famous scholar and lecturer and author interfere with treating everyone with the same kindness, thoughtfulness, and consideration that she would expect people to show her, regardless of her ...

  4. History of education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Upon becoming the secretary of education of Massachusetts in 1837, Horace Mann (1796–1859) worked to create a statewide system of professional teachers, based on the Prussian model of "common schools." Prussia was attempting to develop a system of education by which all students were entitled to the same content in their public classes.

  5. History of education - Wikipedia

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    The education of the people: A history of primary education in England and Wales in the nineteenth century (Routledge, 2013) Toloudis, Nicholas. Teaching Marianne and Uncle Sam: Public Education, State Centralization, and Teacher Unionism in France and the United States (Temple University Press, 2012) 213, pp. * Sorin-Avram, Virtop (2015).

  6. Profession - Wikipedia

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    The term "profession" is a truncation of the term "liberal profession", which is, in turn, an Anglicization of the French term profession libérale.Originally borrowed by English users in the 19th century, it has been re-borrowed by international users from the late 20th, though the (upper-middle) class overtones of the term do not seem to survive re-translation: "liberal professions" are ...

  7. Prussian education system - Wikipedia

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    The two installed a model school for rural education that attracted more than 1,200 notable visitors between 1777 and 1794. [ 6 ] The Prussian system, after its modest beginnings, succeeded in reaching compulsory attendance, specific training for teachers, national testing for all students (both female and male students), a prescribed national ...

  8. Pedagogy - Wikipedia

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    Adapting the teaching resource should suit appropriate teaching and learning environments, national and local cultural norms, and make it accessible to different types of learners. Key adaptations in teaching resource include: [39] Classroom constraints. Large class size – consider smaller groups or have discussions in pairs;

  9. John Taylor Gatto - Wikipedia

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    John Taylor Gatto (December 15, 1935 [3] – October 25, 2018 [4]) was an American author and school teacher.After teaching for nearly 30 years he authored several books on modern education, criticizing its ideology, history, and consequences.